[Dallas59]

Nope. Russia has friends “elsewhere”.

[Timber Rattler]

The most important thing for European ministers to remember during this crisis is how little they actually have to fear from Mr Putin – for Russia needs the West far more than the West needs Russia.

This guy actually believes that?

[DTA]

>>>>>>The most important thing for European ministers to remember during this crisis is how little they actually have to fear from Mr Putin – for Russia needs the West far more than the West needs Russia.<<<<<

Cheerful talk of the crickets at sweltering July heat.

They do not have to fear from the ant. They'll fear winter cold. And their own empty pockets.

[svcw]

Defying the US? Putin is not a child, he is very cleaver....mostly by using obama’s idiocy against him.

[apillar]

Russia has been doing pretty good at best and surviving at worst while defying the west for the last couple centuries, I don’t expect that to change under Putin or anybody else.....

[dforest]

Well, that should be a good thing, right? So, let him defy the West Obama will finish him off..

By defying Obama, conservatives could be leading themselves to ruin.

Could be, but we aren’t going without taking people with us.

[Safetgiver]

Yeah, right. Who’s gonna stop him? Michelle?

[zeestephen]

Re: “There have been abundant quantities of liquefied natural gas (LNG) acquired from countries such as Qatar and Algeria”

Why, of course.

The peace loving, stable, secular democracies in Qatar and Algeria are the perfect insurance policy against Russia and Mr. Putin.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Vlad has stepped in it with this Ukranian misadventure. He is deep into his egg money just supplying material to the separatists. Now with all the hub bub from Europe the 40 or so oligarchs Putin answers to are bound to be getting upset that their business with Europe is going to suffer. And that all important credit window in the west is starting to shut.

Russia has a 3,000 mile border with China. They have always been worried about what that could potentially mean which is why they play nice with the ChiComs but they are not friends.

[x]

Compared to what, though? 1917? 1921? 1932? 1938? 1942?

Are things really going to be as bad as they were even 20 years ago?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Kerry Makes Yet Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment (Malaysian flight MH17)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3183835/posts

[noinfringers2]

“Access to global capital markets” tells it all about people like Soros and the Rothchilds and other world bankers to get Russia into their ‘new world order’ for control of the Western world. Putin like the Czars of old wants Russian political/governmental independence. It is a pity that Putin and the Russians are doing government like was brought to Russia by the likes of communists Marx, Engels, and Lenin paid by the Rothcild bank money.